Here Are a Bunch of Trump Inner Circle Amazon Wish Lists

From Cesar Millan to a tactical flashlight, here's what tops Team Trump's Amazon Wish Lists.

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https://www.wired.com/story/trump-world-amazon-wish-lists

North Korea's Japan Missile Flyover Calls Donald Trump's Bluff

Donald Trump's scorched-earth rhetoric pushes North Korea closer to the brink—and, maybe, the US closer to the negotiating table.

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https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-japan-missile-trump

Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree

A vulnerability in hotel keycard locks was a security disaster—and a huge opportunity for one burglar.

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https://www.wired.com/2017/08/the-hotel-hacker

Violent Alt-Right Chats Could Be Key to Charlottesville Lawsuits

Leaked documents describe weapons and cite potential "gunfight."

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https://www.wired.com/story/leaked-alt-right-chat-logs-are-key-to-charlottesville-lawsuits

Facebook Creepiness, AccuWeather Tracking, and More Security News This Week

Facebook's weird friend suggestions, AccuWeather's location snooping, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-accuweather-opm-security-news

Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'Backdoors'

Malicious machine learning can hide nasty surprises.

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https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-backdoors

Microsoft PowerShell Is a Hot Hacker Target, But Its Defenses Are Improving

The often-attacked framework finally learns to play defense.

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https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-powershell-security

All the Ways US Government Cybersecurity Falls Flat

A new study shows not only that federal cybersecurity is as dismal that you thought, but why.

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-cybersecurity

Stormfront Nazis Think the Alt-Right Is Full of Idiots

White supremacist message board users has taken issue with the alt-right, in an echo of past divisions.

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https://www.wired.com/story/stormfront-alt-right

Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Sabotage

An early taste of the hacked robot uprising.

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https://www.wired.com/story/watch-robot-hacks-spy-sabotage

Your Handy Guide to the Many Tech Anxieties of Our Time

Will you Slack the wrong gossip to the wrong person? Probably, but who cares. Will Skynet become self-aware and kill us all? Nah. At least, not yet.

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https://www.wired.com/2017/08/anxiety-matrix

The Confessions: What If All Your Secrets Became Public? A Story by Joshua Cohen

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https://www.wired.com/2017/08/the-confessions

Enigma ICO Heist Robs Nearly $500,000 in Ethereum From Investors

Crypto's fine and good, but make sure you're looking after the basics.

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https://www.wired.com/story/enigma-ico-ethereum-heist

Sorry, Banning ‘Killer Robots’ Just Isn’t Practical

Elon Musk and others seek restrictions on use of autonomous weapons

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https://www.wired.com/story/sorry-banning-killer-robots-just-isnt-practical

Trump Administration Elevates US Cyber Command

By elevating Cyber Command, the Trump administration signals just how important cyber warfare has become.

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https://www.wired.com/story/cyber-command-elevated

Charlottesville, HBO Hacks, and More Security News This Week

Charlottesville, HBO hacks, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-touch-id-turn-off

Breaking Down the HBO Hacks: From Game of Thrones To a Twitter Takeover

Four separate security incidents, including _Game of Thrones_ leaks, have turned HBO's August into a case study of hack attacks.

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https://www.wired.com/story/hbo-hacks-game-of-thrones

Cloudflare Pulls Support For The Daily Stormer, a White Supremacist Site

Cloudflare pulls the plug on a white supremacist site, after years of declaring neutrality.

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https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-daily-stormer

A Deep Flaw in Your Car Lets Hackers Shut Down Safety Features

A new wrinkle in auto-hacking research points to a fundamental vulnerability in the CAN protocol cars' innards use to communicate.

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https://www.wired.com/story/car-hack-shut-down-safety-features

Verizon Takes Fourth Amendment Stand in Carpenter V. United States

By fighting against the collection of warrantless location information, Verizon bucks a trend of telecom cooperation with the feds.

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https://www.wired.com/story/verizon-privacy-location-data-fourth-amendment

Donald Trump's Charlottesville Press Conference Has Roots in Fox News and Twitter

Nothing Donald Trump said Tuesday about Charlottesville hadn't already been said on conservative media, or by the Twitter figures he follows.

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https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-charlottesville-press-conference-white-supremacy

Tech Companies Have the Tools to Confront White Supremacy

After Charlottesville, companies like Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of Silicon [Valley](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/14/godaddy-bans-neo-nazi-site-daily-stormer-for-disparaging-woman-killed-at-charlottesville-rally/?utm_term=.5071829edb00) should take a firmer stand against white supremacy on their platforms.

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https://www.wired.com/story/charlottesville-social-media-hate-speech-online

Free Stingray-Detector Apps Could Be Outsmarted

Researchers tested their own stingray against five free Android apps. It beat them all.

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https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-detector-apps

The Alt-Right Can't Disown Charlottesville

For years, inflammatory rhetoric consumed backwater internet message boards. They can’t take it back now.

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https://www.wired.com/story/alt-right-charlottesville-reddit-4chan

A Guide to Russia’s High Tech Tool Box for Subverting US Democracy

Russia's government draws on a century of espionage tradecraft to influence and undermine Western society. Now it’s updated for the digital age.

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https://www.wired.com/story/a-guide-to-russias-high-tech-tool-box-for-subverting-us-democracy

The Guy Who Made Up All Those Password Rules Is Sorry

North Korea tensions, password regrets, Shadow Brokers, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/password-rules-north-korea

Russia's 'Fancy Bear' Hackers Used Leaked NSA Tool 'Eternal Blue" to Target Hotel Guests

The same hackers who hit the DNC and the Clinton campaign are now apparently spying on high-value travelers via Wi-Fi

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https://www.wired.com/story/fancy-bear-hotel-hack

Trump's North Korea Nuclear Riffing Creates a Real Danger

Donald Trump's loose rhetoric toward nuclear weapons and North Korea could spell major trouble.

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https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-north-korea-nuclear-rhetoric

Scientists Put Malware in DNA For the First Time

Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.

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https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack

North Korea's Miniature Nuke Spells Big Trouble For the World

Now that North Korea can miniaturize a nuke, it's time to tread very, very carefully.

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https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-miniature-nuke

Warrantless US Spying Is Set to Expire Soon. Let It Die

Opinion: It's time to let the sun set on warrantless surveillance.

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https://www.wired.com/story/warrantless-us-spying-is-set-to-expire-soon-let-it-die

HBO Hackers Drop Ransom Note and More Game of Thrones Spoilers

The hackers plaguing the premium TV network have revealed their motive—and more Game of Thrones spoilers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/hbo-hack-ransom-note

Army Bans DJI Drones, Citing Security Concerns

One of the most popular drone brands is too big a security risk for the Army, at least for now.

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https://www.wired.com/story/army-dji-drone-ban

Voting Machine Hackers Have 5 Tips to Save the Next Election

Hey, democracy, your vulnerabilities are showing.

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https://www.wired.com/story/voting-machine-hackers-5-tips

Protect the White Hat Hackers Who Are Just Doing Their Jobs

The danger of the Marcus Hutchins case is the chilling effect it could have on malware research in general.

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https://www.wired.com/story/marcus-hutchins-arrest

A Whole New Way to Hack Self-Driving Cars

Each Saturday we roundup the major security news of the week.

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https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-august-5-2017

Russia and China’s VPN Crackdown Leaves Few Places to Turn

As China and Russia crack down on VPN services, digital rights activists sound the alarm.

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https://www.wired.com/story/china-russia-vpn-crackdown

WannaCry-Stopping Hacker MalwareTech Charged With Helping Write Kronos Banking Trojan

Marcus Hutchins is under arrest in Las Vegas for allegedly writing Kronos, a banking trojan, three years ago.

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https://www.wired.com/story/wannacry-malwaretech-arrest

The US Press Freedom Tracker Follows Abuses of Journalists To Help Stop Them

The US Press Freedom Tracker catalogues the increasingly common abuses against American journalists.

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-press-freedom-tracker-site

Apple's China VPN Crackdown Is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Companies Caving

By pulling VPN apps from the App Store in China, Apple joins a long like of tech companies that have given into censorship.

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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship

Full Audio of Jared Kushner's Congressional Intern Address

From Trump rallies to Syria strikes, here's what Jared Kushner said to a crowd of congressional interns.

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https://www.wired.com/story/jared-kushner-leak-full-audio

A Hack Can Turn an Amazon Echo Into a Wiretap

An Echo in every hotel room? Maybe think twice about that plan.

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https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-echo-wiretap-hack

Jared Kushner Comments on Middle East Peace in Leaked Q&A: "What Do We Offer That's Unique? I Don't Know."

The White House senior advisor spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series.

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https://www.wired.com/story/jared-kushner-middle-east

Voting Machine Hacks Help Show How to Protect Elections

At the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas, the hackers descended on America's vulnerable voting machines.

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https://www.wired.com/story/voting-machine-hacks-defcon